Fantasy Hockey Mailbag: 2013-14 DobberHockey Fantasy Guide Edition

[chuckcouples]

30 team NHL salary and salary cap dynasty league where you keep your players until you trade them or they become NHL UFAs. Dress 1 goalie each week but your starting goaltender can not play more than 84% of the weeks in any given season. Goaltending stats are GAA, SV%, Wins and Shutouts. Which goalie should I be keeping and which should I be looking to trade this summer?

Antti Niemi or Sergei Bobrovsky

[JJBANKS]

brand new salary cap league 20 teams h2h

NHL roster

A/G/Blk/Hit/PIM/SOG/PPP/SHP


SO/W/GAA/SV%

using cap hits

I dont usually draft first and im almost positive on who im taking but just wanted to get some thoughts

[finminer]

12-team dynasty, salary ($200 cap at auction, can buy a $20 increase), auction draft
3C, 2LW, 2RW, 2F, 4D, 2G
Fwd Only G, Fwd Only A, Special G, Special A, D-Pts, Plm, GAA, Goalie Net Pts, Save Pct, GWG+Shootout G
Goalies are key; 30% of stats for 13% of players.
Keep as many as you want, subject to contracts or salary escalation.
6 Bench, 1 IR, 6 Prospects
Upon call-up, prospects can be signed for up to 5 years at $5 salary, making them very valuable. For example, I have had Giroux under contract at $5, when his open auction value is $45-$55 (Crosby is at C$63).

Keepers for 2013-14 (C=contract, max of 10)
C: Stamkos C$5, Giroux C$5
LW: Ryan C$32, EKane C$5, Prust $6, Bartschi $6
RW: Parenteau $6, Vrbata $6
D: Shattenkirk C$1, Hamilton C$5, Phaneuf $12, Voynov $6
G: Price C$29, Bob $11, Niemi $29 (maybe)
P: Jones, Lehner, Saad, Galchenyuk, Scheifele, Coyle

Thinking of trading Shattenkirk C$1 thru 15-16 for Corey Crawford C$5 thru 16-17. Niemi is a bit high for me, and this would not only give me more cap room but solidify G for three years. With two other contracts at D and Seth Jones coming up, I think I can afford to trade him or Hamilton. The target owner is a St. Louis homer VERY interested in Shats.

a) Would you trade Shats or look to trade Hamilton elsewhere for F scoring?
(other potential targets: PKane, Landeskog, Neal, Zetterberg)
b) Offer Shats for Crawford + any of Gormley, Morgan Reilly, or his #1 prospect pick (I don't have a #1 this year)? Too much?
c) Trade both for G stability & F scoring?

Thanks!

[HockeyEpidemic]

Hi Angus,

My league is a points only league...a goal is a point and an assist is a point. We can keep one player from year to year. Bottom line do I keep Ovechkin or Tavares? I was leaning towards Tavares since he is younger and hasn't hit his prime yet. Thanks in advance.


3 time P.H.L champ 2009, 2010, 2013

P.H.L league
Goal 1 point
Assist 1 point
Goalie win 2 points
Goalie shutout 3 points
Roster size - 5 centres, 5 forwards, 5 defence men and 2 goalies

[burnsy00]

Hey Jeff,

Thanks as always. Coming off a 3rd championship my team has a tonne of depth for a 10 team league and this year we are expanding to 11 teams. Basically we normally keep 7 forwards, 4 dmen and 2 goalies but for this year we are roster freezing 6 forwards, 3 dmen and 2 goalies so that the new GM can select 1 player from each team and once that is done we can then make trades and set our actual pre-draft roster of 7 forwards, 4dmen and 2 goalies. We draft annually in September until all teams have 18 forwards (including 4 bench), 8 dmen (includes 3 bench) and 3 goalies (includes 1 bench) and 10 prospects (all prospects must be under the age of 26 and can be absolutely anyone)

Scoring:
Points
Goal = 1.5 pts
Assist = 1 pt
Penalty Minutes = 0.25 pts
Plus/Minus = 0.5 pts
Goalie wins = 1.5 pts
Shutouts = 2 pts
Goalie Games Played = 0.5 pts

Here is my roster:
Alexander Semin
Thomas Vanek
Milan Michalek
Daniel Sedin
Patrick Sharp
Marian Hossa
Henrik Sedin
Mike Fisher
Brad Boyes
Frans Nielsen
Devin Setoguchi
Blake Wheeler
Colin Wilson
Mikael Backlund
Troy Brouwer
Niklai Kulemin
Ville Leino
Max Pacioretty
Radim Vrbata
Marion Gaborik
Joe Thornton
Evgeni Malkin

Mike Green
Duncan Keith
Mark Streit
Zdeno Chara
Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Cam Fowler
Brian Campbell
James Wisniewski

Ilya Bryzgalov
Anders Lindback
Kari Lehtonen

Minor Leaguers:
Michael Neuvirth
Kyle Palmieri
Luke Adam
Emerson Etem
Ryan Johansen
Mark Scheifele


Trades are hard to come by right now especailly for me as I highly doubt anyone in my league wants to see me 4-peat. My question to you is, prior to expansion here are my keepers:

Daniel Sedin
Henrik Sedin
Evgeni Malkin
Max Pacioretty
Alexander Semin
Thomas Vanek

Zdeno Chara
OEL
Mike Green

Kari Lehtonen

I think the tossup for me is the 6th forward whether or not to keep Vanek, Thornton or Sharp...it is goal heavy. Would you keep these same forwards?

[marlou3232]

league sig below

would you consider trading Tarasenko for McKinnon, Drouin or Barkov?

[mounD]

Realistic projections for Mackinnon in 2013-14?

G,A,+/-,PIM,PPP,SHP,SOG,FW

[Mater]

Hey Angus,
I thought I read somewhere you were going to be writing less?

Do I have my keepers right?

Who would be 3 fringe keepers i.e keepers 14-16?
thanks

[Rob]

Hi Angus,

Who would you go with,,,, Points wise ????


Cody Eakin or Kyle Okposo

[Zorro]

Thanks for the mail sack again ANGUS!!

Points only keeper league.. Extra points for PP and SH goals.. No positions..

Grigorenko or Nichushkin??

MacKinnon or Drouin??

Gardiner or Hamilton??

[ml_cow]

Points only (keeper), extra points for goals.
Trade:
E.Kane for Eberle

[angus]

Thanks for offering this Jeff. Curious on your thoughts for keepers in light of the off season moves. It should be noted that I acquired an extra 1st & 2nd round pick for the upcoming draft via trades last season. Both 1st rounds should be high picks since both teams laid an egg at the end of the season.

Our league is a limited keeper, in that you can only hold onto players three times.

League Stats:
G, A, PPP, PIM, SOG, blocked shots and hits
W, GAA, Sv % and SO

1. Pick four to keep:

Pavelski
D. Sedin
Hartnell
Backstrom (C)
Lundqvist
B. Ryan
Giroux
D. Brown
Couture

2. What does your crystal ball see for production from the Sedin's under Tortorella?

3. D. Sedin or P. Kane moving forward with the above stats?

Thanks again!

P Kane. Younger, more upside. Sedin is safer bet for now, but not by much.

I like the Sedins - see them as 70-80 guys for the next 2-4 years.

[angus]

Ok.

Here's my team:

14 Team Dynasty, Full Salarys (Cap 20M$ over actual).
G,A,Pts,+/-,PIM,PP,SH,Shots,GWG - W,SV%,GAA,SO,Saves
3C,3LW,3RW,3F,5D,2G,5Bench

Martin St.louis (A) / Henrik Zetterberg (C)/ Patrick Marleau / Phil Kessel / Jarome Iginla / P.A. Parenteau / Mikhail Grabovski / Cody Hodgson / Derrick Brassard / Gabriel Landeskog / Kyle Okposo / Damien Brunner /
Alex Edler / Dion Phanuef / Oliver Ekman-Larsson / Jared Spurgeon / Brendan Smith
Jimmy Howard / Corey Crawford
Victor Fasth / Ray Emery / Patric Hornqvist / Cam Atkinson / Charlie Coyle

And my Farm:

F - Tyler Toffoli D - Raphael Diaz - 1.2M$
F - Alex Killorn - .875M$ D - Adam Larsson -.925M$
F - Gabriel Bourque - .635M$ D - T.J. Brodie - .6M$
F - Craig Smith - 2M$ D - Matt Tennyson - .925M$
W - Tyler Johnson - .740M$ D - Mark Barberio - .6M$
F - Chris Kreider - .9M$
F - Ondrej Palat - .588M$
F - Alex Chiasson - .9M$ And 1st rnd pick in 14 left.

I have 13M$ in Cap Space.

My biggest concerns are "Is Okposo ready to take that step we saw in the playoffs?"

Is Spurgeon going to stay PP 1 or is Brodin the golden boy going to get the minutes?

Who from my farm is the weakest link to look at moving to fill one of the above gap's

Thank you

Okposo - yes he is.

Spurgeon - will stay PP1. He offers more there relative to Brodin (Brodin's true value is two-way play).

Probably Bourque - don't see a ton of upside there.

[angus]

League stats in signature

Simple: Would you be interested in Brown + Green + 1st rounder (5th overall) (and they both keepers onto your team) if:
a) you had Seguin
b) you had Getzlaf
c) you had Backstrom (the mullet)

Thanks.

So you are trading one of those three centers for the package?

[kidd]

is girgensons still worth holding on to?

same cats as your keeper league